AGAVE

[aga.ve] n [NL Agave, genus name, fr. L, a daughter of Cadmus, fr. Gk Agaue] (ca. 1797): any of a genus (Agave of the family Agavraceae, the agave family) of plants having spiny-margined leaves and flowers in tall spreading panicles and including some cultivated for their fiber or sap or for ornament